Chapter 70: Old Mansion and Old Antiques
After getting the news, Lu Jinping was already confident, and immediately returned to Datou's cell, and before he got close, he heard screams inside, it turned out that Xiong Zhutou was extorting a confession from Datou. It's just that the big head seems to have clearly known that once this matter is confessed, he will lose his head, so he gritted his teeth and refused to confess.
Lu Jinping asked Xiong Zhutou to stop the torture, and at the same time showed the confessions of the two subordinates.
After hearing that the two had confessed, especially those involved in the tomb robbery, his psychological defense finally collapsed. He confessed in frustration that he and two of his men had dug up the grave of General Li's grandmother Zhu.
Datou confessed that although he knew that it was a capital crime to steal and excavate the general's ancestral grave, the person who entrusted it offered too high, and he named the bones of General Li's grandmother and other people who did not want it. They also sent someone to supervise and confirm that the bones were indeed exhumed from the ancestral grave of General Li's grandmother before paying. In front of the mountain of copper coins, the big head could not resist the temptation, so he decided to take the risk and dig up the grave of the general's grandmother. Subsequently, he gave the address of the person who bought the bones.
After hearing this, Lu Jinping was a little strange, why did the family ask for the bones of General Li's grandmother by name?
The answer was revealed a few days later.
Luo Zhengshi successfully detected the theft of General Li's grandmother's grave and reported it to Feng Tingshi, who in turn personally reported to General Li.
General Li was overjoyed and immediately personally led people to the house of the person who bought the bones to arrest him. At the same time, we have to bring back the bones of my grandmother.
However, when I arrived, I learned that the person who bought the bones was actually an official of the imperial court, and came up with sufficient evidence to prove that General Li's grandmother had remarried, and the person who bought the bones of the general's grandmother was the son of the grandmother's ex-husband. General Li's grandmother was not liked by her ex-husband's mother, and the mother-in-law forced her son to divorce his wife, and the general's grandmother remarried the general's grandfather. However, her ex-husband has always liked this wife, and he had to divorce his wife due to the coercion of his mother, and the second half of his life was extremely painful.
After his death, his children and grandchildren were very filial, and after discussion, they found the big head, and paid a lot of money for him to dig up the grave and secretly steal the bones of General Li's grandmother to be buried with her ex-husband.
After learning about the cause and effect, General Lee fell silent. He was also an extremely filial person, and he had heard that this grandmother had remarried. And when they arrived at their Li family, they have always been depressed, and the reason is unknown. Unexpectedly, there is such a complex background.
General Li's grandfather died on the battlefield and died in the chaos, and his bones were not found, so after General Li's grandmother died, he was only buried with his grandfather's clothes. Now that she is buried with her ex-husband, it is better to be buried alone than her. Since it has already been buried in the ground, why dig it up again and bury it alone in another place.
So, under the pleading of the other party, General Li did not insist on asking for the bones, nor did he arrest the other party for punishment, and went back in amazement.
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At noon that day, Lu Jinping and Ye Qingqing were decorating the room in the old mansion.
In the morning, they went to redeem the big and small beds that had been sold in the old house, as well as some tables, chairs and benches.
The money came from the bounty, because he solved the case of the theft of General Li's grandmother's grave, and although General Li did not finally invite his mother's remains back for reburial, he was very satisfied with the detection of the case and gave a bounty. Luo Judicial gave almost all the bonuses to Lu Jinping, because if it weren't for him, this case would not have been solved at all.
Lu Jinping also accepted the money honestly and unceremoniously. He had already found out the whereabouts of the furniture that had been sold, and the scholar he possessed pawned it to the pawnshop, because it was not sold back after the expiration date, and the ownership went to the pawnshop. The pawnshop sent it to the furniture store for sale. Because these furniture are hundreds of years old and very beautiful, not many people can afford to buy them. Moreover, there are not many people who like to collect old antiques. As a result, most of the furniture was not sold, and it was still in antique furniture stores.
It's just that what made Lu Jinping distressed was that he inquired and it would cost a lot of money to buy back these furniture. General Li's reward could only buy back a large bed and a small bed, as well as some tables, chairs and benches.
Lu Jinping originally wanted to see what these old furniture looked like, because Ye Qingqing had seen it, and he didn't inherit the memory of the scholar, so he didn't know what these furniture looked like. When I saw these furniture, I immediately liked it, these furniture were very compatible with the old house, which was customized by Lord Lu according to the style of the old house, and the skilled craftsmen were specially invited to use the best wood. After reading it, Lu Jinping decided to buy these antique furniture back at any cost.
His fortune alone is not enough. Fortunately, a big case was solved, and General Li was very generous, so he gave this reward money, redeemed the two beds of furniture that were the most practical for them, and then told the shopkeeper of the old antique furniture that if anyone wanted to buy the original furniture of their Lu family, they would notify him first. He saw if he could buy them at the same price, after all, these things belonged to theirs in the first place.
The shopkeeper of the furniture store already knew that Lu Jinping was not the old man and had become an official in the yamen, so of course he agreed to Lu Jinping's request, promising that if anyone wanted to buy it, he would notify him first, and sell it to him at the same price first.
With this guarantee from the shopkeeper, Lu Jinping was a little relieved that he could calmly save money to redeem the furniture. This old house is matched with this antique furniture, which is made in heaven, and living in such an antique old house can be regarded as nourishing in that day.
The furniture arrangement is also carried out according to Ye Qingqing's recollection of the original location of the furniture, and it is restored as much as possible. After arranging the furniture, Lu Jinping hugged his shoulders and admired it, feeling that this bedroom looked like that now, but unfortunately the other rooms were basically all four walls, and I didn't know that the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue could bring all the furniture back.
At that moment, there was a banging knock on the door in the direction of the front yard. Ye Qingqing said to Lu Jinping: "I'll take a look." ”
After a while, Ye Qingqing led a catcher to come in, and the catcher sweated and said, "Sir, something happened, a corpse was found in the grove outside the city, and Justice Luo asked me to ask you to go to the autopsy to see if it was murder." ”
Lu Jinping immediately asked Ye Qingqing to put his forensic investigation box on his back and follow him out.
There were three horses parked outside the door, which were brought by the catcher. Lu Jinping and Ye Qingqing turned over their horses and came to the Yamen.
When I arrived at the Yamen, I happened to meet Luo Zhengyi coming out with Xiong Zhutou and the catchers, and when he saw Lu Jinping, Luo Zhengyi arched his hand and said: "Sir, someone found a dead body, and there was still blood on the dead body, it may be murder, so he reported it to the official." I'm going to have to work hard for you this time. ”
Lu Jinping arched his hand: "Your Excellency is polite, how did you find the body?" ”
"The body was in the woods not far from the side of the post road outside Dongcheng, a few passing merchants passed there, and one of the merchants had a stomachache, thinking that it was convenient in the woods, and found this corpse, which was a female corpse, looking about thirty years old, with blood stains on her body. And the lower body ** seems to have been raped and killed. So he went to the Yamen to report to the official. ”
Lu Jinping asked: "Have you verified the identities of these merchants?" ”
The informant must first rule out the suspicion of a crime, because in some cases, the thief shouts to catch the thief, and the informant is the criminal, so the first thing to exclude is the informant.
Luo Si ** for a moment and said, "This, how to verify it?" ”
"You sent someone to separate the people who reported the crime, including their names, names, family situations, where they came from, and how the bodies were found. Their confessions are then cross-referenced to see if they are reporting a false case or if they are really passing by the body that was found. ”
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